Aquí tenéis un esquema básico de la formación y empleo del Pasado Simple (y una buena dosis de ejercicios, la mayoría de auto-corrección online).
Past simple
Affirmative: S+INF+(e)d
Negative: S+didn’t+INF
Interrogative: did+S+INF?
El pasado simple se utiliza:
•Con acciones pasadas que tuvieron lugar en un momento determinado. Con este uso empleamos expresiones como: yesterday, last night, last week, last month, last year, two years ago…
We didn’t watch TV last night. Anoche no vimos la televisión.
•Narrar hechos pasados secuenciados.
Last Saturday, I went camping with my friends. We got up very early, packed lots of things in our rucksacks and set off at 7 a.m.
El sábado pasado me fui de acampada con mis amigos. Nos levantamos muy temprano, metimos un montón de cosas en las mochilas y salimos a las siete de la mañana
EXERCISES
- Ending -ed in the Simple Past – Crossword 1
- Ending -ed in the Simple Past – Crossword 2
- Ending -ed in the Simple Past – Exercise 1
- Simple Past – ending -ed – Exercise 2
- Positive statements in the Simple Past – Regular verbs – Exercise 1
- Rules – Simple Past – Exercise
- Positive statements in the Simple Past – Exercise 2
- Questions in the Simple Past – Exercise 1
- Questions in the Simple Past – Exercise 2
- Sentences and questions in the Simple Past – Exercise 1
- Sentences and questions in the Simple Past – Exercise 2
- Signal words in the Simple Past – Exercise
- Simple Past – Negation of sentences in English – Exercise 1 (verbs in bold)
- Simple Past – Negation of sentences in English – Exercise 2 (verbs in bold)
- Simple Past – Negation of sentences in English – Exercise 3
- More exercises: [E1] [E2] [E1]
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